Best 41 quotes in «figure skating quotes» category

You always learn from your mistakes.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,

He was her creation. From the moment they met when he wobbled onto the ice at the age of ten and refused to leave until he had learned his first jump, they could see into each others souls. Now when it counted most, there was a wall between them.

I remember being little and wondering if I smoothed this line away would I be able to see inside you, like it was a door or some kind of opening to your insides. Dumb, huh?” “Sweet,” he said, softly. “Little girl sweet. Never dumb.” Her eyes traveled up to his and locked there. “When I got older I wondered what it would be like to kiss it.

No matter what the other fifty odd weeks of his life offered, here, at least for a few days, he was officially a very special person in an otherwise ordinary world.

Pain-soaked joints. Endless miles. Concessions and compromises. Soon, finally, everything would come down to a few irretrievable revolutions of a stopwatch.

Soar like an eagle beyond skies of heavens reach; as wings of dreams dance with winds of reality.

Dance less in motion and more in spirit; awaken the dreamer within.

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

When you saw the exquisite pair team of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, whether on ice or off, you wished everyone could know a connection, partnership, friendship and romance so effortless, harmonious and pure. Ekaterina knew of the terrible things in the world but felt safeguarded from them because Sergei was always by her side and that is the exceptional gift and strength of man – to feel safe with one, and her gift to him was what you see in their photos, captured in time and poetically immortalized.

Yeah, because off the ice the only language Stephanie speaks is fluent Bitch.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

I believe in myself and in Saint Therese.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

I'm higher than I expected.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

Memories just get richer with time.

I really like figure skating.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

I think skating helped me find myself.

It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.

It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

I've always wanted to be an action figure.

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

Well, I can't figure out God.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.